Following the results of examination trainings State Commission approved the main crew of new ISS mission consisting of Roscosmos cosmonaut Maksim Surayev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.

In the next three months Roscosmos plans to accomplish more than 10 space launches taking place from Baikonur and Plesetsk spaceports, Guiana Space Centre and “spaceport floating in the Pacific Ocean”.

Works in the framework of Soyuz-2/Meteor-M prelaunch preparations are under way at Baikonur spaceport.
Soyuz-2.1b booster with Fregat-M upper stage and Meteor-M space device will be lunched in June 2014.